If the child is a brat, you discipline the child. If the child tries to stab you to death for disciplining it, you put the child in a mental ward for safe observation and help. If when the child (or in this case patent industry) is mature and tries it again, society prescribes the death penalty (in the US). Why shouldn't the patent system be any different?
The big IT corporations don't need patents to maintain their control because they are in a unique position to crush upstarts that few industries have. They industry as a whole has proven that they can't use them responsibly and the very fact that a hobbyist can turn their hobby into a business means that patents are bad. I'm sorry, but the ends justify the means here. Patent holders have time and again proven that milking their work and not innovating is their real goal, at least in IT. It's time that the entire system be flushed out and simplified.
I agree. The entire IT industry should be liquidated (think of the job openings!). Sorry Taco, but it's the chair for you!
Every first-run theater I know of has devices for the hearing impaired. Basically little receivers and earphones so you can TURN THE SOUND UP REAL LOUD.
Unless it's a Bruckheimer flick. That would be lethal if it were any louder.
If you're completely deaf, yeah, you're screwed, but hey at least you live in an age where you can get a DVD.
Actually he'll say, "Daddy, I can't believe you're still bitching about freedom-this and freedom-that. That hippy shit died out in the 2000's. Get over it you old fart, and give me $200 for a movie."
Properly indoctrinated, he won't even believe in the value of your freedoms.
Consider a better, safer, cheaper and much faster way to get from NYC to Tokoyo with near-future tech: A maglev train via an underground tunnel, in vacuum for frictionless acceleration to ludicrious-speed at the midway point before decel. Currently, tunnel excavation is labor intensive and very EXPENSIVE; precise control over matter and robotic automation will change that.
You're not going to change the enormous energy required to move trillions of tons of rock. Or the mega-expense of laying 12,000 miles of maglev track and sucking the air out of the tube constantly.
Flying a jet through the rarified atmosphere is much easier. And you can actually go somewhere besides Tokyo and NY if you'd like.
When (if) the OS gets rid of folders, we'll need (and have) 3rd party apps to put things back in a heirarchy of folders. It's a fast, logical way to group things that many people are not going to give up for a search or tag based system.
And in case you are wondering, Google explicitly owes nothing to its (common) shareholders. They have no (worthwhile) voting rights on the activities of the company and no rights to a share of any profits (dividends).
It was clearly detailed in the IPO no one bothered to read. I guess you can still call that 'do no evil'.
but I like the idea of a $200 box I can just hook up to the TV, pop a disc in, and play.
Then you won't be buying a next-generation system for a while. Maybe Nintendo will keep the price low, but MS and Sony will be closer to double that (if not more by the time you actually buy a game to play on the thing).
Maybe they can get Google maps to add red zones around all of the restricted areas.
Better yet, let's have Google map the nearest 10 sex offenders to you at any time! Complete with a link to their criminal record. Google will teach you to 'Do no evil', you nasty sex offenders!
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Face reality, at least the hunk of plastic won't say no.
We'll just put it on a credit card. Duh!
I agree. The entire IT industry should be liquidated (think of the job openings!). Sorry Taco, but it's the chair for you!
Unless it's a Bruckheimer flick. That would be lethal if it were any louder.
If you're completely deaf, yeah, you're screwed, but hey at least you live in an age where you can get a DVD.
Properly indoctrinated, he won't even believe in the value of your freedoms.
I love a good dystopia!
You're not going to change the enormous energy required to move trillions of tons of rock. Or the mega-expense of laying 12,000 miles of maglev track and sucking the air out of the tube constantly.
Flying a jet through the rarified atmosphere is much easier. And you can actually go somewhere besides Tokyo and NY if you'd like.
When (if) the OS gets rid of folders, we'll need (and have) 3rd party apps to put things back in a heirarchy of folders. It's a fast, logical way to group things that many people are not going to give up for a search or tag based system.
Unless you pointed it the wrong way. Then it would be a gigantic break through the whole planet.
It was clearly detailed in the IPO no one bothered to read. I guess you can still call that 'do no evil'.
Thank you, sir! May I have another?
Sorry. It's a reflex from toiling in the R&D mines.
Then you won't be buying a next-generation system for a while. Maybe Nintendo will keep the price low, but MS and Sony will be closer to double that (if not more by the time you actually buy a game to play on the thing).
Actually it turns out there was a confusion in the units.
The specifications committee set a working lifespan of 100 days, and the design team thought they meant fortnights.
The FBI didn't give up on Carnivore or TIA, they've just outsourced it to Google. Looks like development is going quite well!
I've read your message a dozen times and still can't find Waldo.
If we're lucky he'll remake Eps 1 & 2. Maybe with even better effects and less suck.
'Downtime', what a wonderful euphamism for unemployed. I think you have a great career in consulting.
"Bob! Good news! We're undergoing a right-sizing exercise here and you've been allocated unlimited downtime from the office!"
Come on. Everyone knows the easiest way to get kids interested in something is to forbid it. Bush is just craftier than you think.
My old-school Nintendo robot (aka ROB, Robotic Operated Buddy) will have to kick his liquid metal ass.
Better yet, let's have Google map the nearest 10 sex offenders to you at any time! Complete with a link to their criminal record. Google will teach you to 'Do no evil', you nasty sex offenders!
That's a bigger hurdle than you think.
Are you questioning our great benevolent provider Jobs, citizen?
Doesn't matter! If it's unladen, it's not bringing back any coconuts whether or not it's migratory.
That would certainly explain why so few things in this universe make any sense at all unless you're drunk.
They should include Tetris. That'd push sales through the roof.
Too bad really, if it were all dead you could go through its pockets and look for $10,000 in loose change.